{"id":44041,"date":"2023-10-20T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook-workplace-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:01","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook-workplace-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook-workplace-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about Facebook Workplace – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook\u2019s latest foray into the workplace collaboration space has the potential to change the way SMEs operate, according to one social media expert.<\/p>\n
The social media giant first signalled its intention to build a Facebook for Work in late 2014 and in early 2015, began trials of the service, which allows businesses to access the cloud-based platform to create social networks for staff.<\/p>\n
The service was based on an internal version of Facebook used by employees of the company itself and in a blog post overnight, Facebook said more than 1000 organisations have been using the free version of service in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n
The service has now been renamed Facebook Workplace and from today, will be available to businesses of all sizes in all locations via desktop and mobile apps, with the price for accessing the service to be determined by the number of monthly users.<\/p>\n
Facebook Workplace includes the same features that individual Facebook users have access to from their personal accounts, including the News Feed, Facebook Groups, direct messaging through the Chat function, the ability to translate posts, Live video, reactions, trending posts and video and audio calling.<\/p>\n
Businesses can set up Groups for their own employees or for collaborating with other organisations, as well as access a dashboard with analytics about how the platform is being used.<\/p>\n
According to Facebook, nearly 100,000 groups have been created by the more than 1000 organisations that have already been using the platform and the locations with the most Facebook Workplace users are India, the US, Norway, the UK and France.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019ve been amazed by the breadth of the organisations who\u2019ve embraced Workplace \u2013 from a shipping company that can now connect with their ship crews using Live video, to a bank that now uses Workplace instead of fax machines and newsletters to share updates with tis distributed bank branches,\u201d Facebook said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Among the organisations already using the platform are Danoe, Starbucks, Booking.com, Oxfam, YES Bank in India and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore.<\/p>\n